The “Giant” musical production world premiere at the Wyly Theater in the Dallas Arts District was an incredible first for me.

Sometimes I’m faced with what a country bumpkin I truly am — not because I came from Ruston, but because Dallas does everything bigger than life and I have to stretch my wings. I learned the art of growing in a smaller environment and was inspired to reach for the stars, and now I can revel in it.

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This year, the leaf color changes have come a little slower than usual. Often, the leaf change starts nearly a month sooner, but this year it has been worth waiting for.

My brother came here in October, and the leaves were just changing. I have always heard of the leaf color in the Rocky Mountains, and it is nice, but he said that our leaves were more spectacular, since we have multiples of color — reds, orange, purples, yellow and some of everything at the same time.

Fall is almost here and it’s about that time of the year to dust off the rakes and begin cleaning up all the leaves that fall from our trees. As we drive around we’ll see people burning and bagging tons of leaves and sticks from there yards.

It’s always made me wonder, as I watch the smoke coming from these piles, if it’s actually smoke signals trying to communicate to us that we are wasting a very valuable and free resource. It wouldn’t take much effort at all to turn those leaves into nutrient filled compost to use in our gardens and flower beds.

We are on a roll planning a party with family coming from five states, honoring our new baby — my great granddaughter, whom we’ve been calling “Little Mo,” but now has a name, “Sydney Ann Morris,” due to arrive in this world April 30, daughter of Susan and Jonathan Morris, granddaughter of Becky and Harold Henderson, of Ruston, and Linda and John Morris, of Fairfax, Va.